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Francis Scott Fitzgerald - The Spokesman of The Jazz Age
Among the most significant writers of the twentieth century, who have struggled with the complex dimensions of the problem of American cultural identity, as well as offered a tolerable solution, is Francis Scott Fitzgerald. He did this so memorably in his works because his own life was so persistent a search for... citește mai departe
American Literature - The American Dream
What is the American Dream? For more than 300 years, immigrants from all over the world have settled in the U.S. What dreams, hopes and expectations have led them to choose this land? The American Dream is the idea (often associated with the Protestant work ethic) held by many in the United States of America,... citește mai departe
France
Introduction France is among the globe’s oldest nations, the product of an alliance of duchies and principalities under a single ruler in the Middle Ages. Today, as in that era, central authority is invested in the state, even though a measure of autonomy has been granted to the country’s 22 régions in recent... citește mai departe
Past tenses as part of the english grammatical category
Introduction The following paper attempts at elucidating the system of Past Tenses as part of English category of apect and tense by means of extensive confrontational situations taken from more than twenty relevant sources. As is well known, Past Tenses present many theoretical and practical difficulties and... citește mai departe
Peculiarities of The Indefinite Article în The English Language
Introduction The subject matter of the ensuing paper is, as presented in the title itself, The Peculiarities of the Indefinite Article in the English Language. The necessity of such an important undertaking is due to the difficulties which the English indefinite article (a/an) and zero article , which are closely... citește mai departe
The Category of Aspect
1. Introduction 0.0 Freed (1976) defined ‘Aspect’ as ‘a notion of Time, distinct from Tense, that refers to the internal temporal structure of events and activities named by various linguistic forms….. in terms of such things as inception, duration, completion..’ The definition suggests that Tense and Aspect, as... citește mai departe
Modernism and 'to the lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf
In 1927 when she published To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf had already formulated her own conception on the ‘new’ novel, which was the novel of flowing consciousness, psychological intensity, released from the rule of time-scale and identity. As Erich Auerbach observes in his critical study Mimesis, her new novel... citește mai departe
The University of Oxford
The University of Oxford The Glorious Legacy of the Past “The life of England, for some eight centuries, may be traced in the buildings of Oxford” (Lang 2). It is almost impossible for a true Englishman to forget of how many striking events in the development of his country Oxford has been the scene. The element... citește mai departe
Myth Criticism
GENERAL PRESENTATION OF THE COURSE The purpose of today’s course is to introduce the students to myth criticism (literary criticism seeking relationships between myth and literature) via two books WHOSE THIRD CHAPTERS/THIRD PARTS deal very explicitly with myth: Northrop Frye’s 1957 book Anatomy of Criticism, an... citește mai departe
Valencia - Spain
Inhabitants: 739.412 Altitude: 13m above sea level Distances: Castellon 69 km Alicante 166 km Barcelona 349 km Madrid 352 km Bright city… One of the biggest cities in Spain, and among the most livelies. It is located at the Mediterranean sea, and you will find beaches right in the very heart of it. During... citește mai departe
Milka Chocolate
Milka is a trademark of Kraft Foods International Milka – the most sold product on the premium segment of chocolate tablets Milka – the first tablet made by Philippe Suchard 1901 - The mark “Milka” is born and registered 1908 - Milka has a new image 1922 – It appears for the first time a cow accompanied by a... citește mai departe
North American Indians - Spirituality and Cosmogonic Myths
“Ordinarily, a sketch of the mythology of a people should include to a great extent its religion as well. Indeed in a large degree primitive religion is mythology, and the two if considered separately will often be found to originate in a common source.” (Miner, 138) As the above quotation explicitly states... citește mai departe
The Public Order
Nowadays the public order is a priority as far as the police are concerned. It’s a large field of activity which implies much work. The Public Order police or the Community Police is a component of the Romanian National Police whose activity is based on maintaining the public order and safety in the urban and... citește mai departe
Economia comerțului turismului și serviciilor
• Caracteristici generale: 1) nu au decât formă de infinitiv scurt (fără prep. TO): to be, to have, to do, to work /vs/ Ø can, Ø may, Ø must. 2) verbul care urmează după un modal este la infinitivul scurt (fără TO ): - I can Ø work. (! NOT: I can to work) You must Ø try again. (! NOT: You must to try... citește mai departe
Turism
LECTURE NOTES 1 PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL TOURISM 1. Introduction to global tourism The travel and tourism industry is the world’s largest and most diverse industry. Many nations rely on this dynamic industry as a primary source for generating revenues, employment, private sector growth and infrastructure... citește mai departe
European Union Law
Course 1 12.01.2009 European Union Law The Creation of the European Communities After the Second World War in Europe there had been moves towards unification between European states. The first intention was to create a federal entity in Europe as the United States of America but it was not accepted mainly... citește mai departe
Global Food Crisis
ABSTRACT At the World Food Summit of 1996, when an estimated 830 million people went hungry, governments pledged to reduce that number by half by 2015. Many now predict that, by contrast, this number will increase by 50% to 1,200 million, with major problems arising from the unpredictable climate chaos and the... citește mai departe
Investigation of Cell Globularization During Mitosis by Combining Optical Microscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy
Dividing cells undergo a series of shape changes that begin in mitosis and continue throughout cytokinesis. In this experiment, we used AFM to study shape changing during cell division. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) can be performed simultaneously with optical microscopy techniques, such as fluorescence or... citește mai departe
Grafitti Art
Argument Graffiti is a general term for wall writing, perhaps humankind's earliest art form. The crude wall writings of prehistoric times and the highly stylized street art of today's inner-city youths share one common feature: each stems from a basic human need to communicate with others. Modern day graffiti was... citește mai departe
Communication
Definition - Communication is a process that allows organisms to exchange information by several methods. - Communication can be defined as the process of meaningful interaction among human beings. It is the act of passing information and the process by which meanings are exchanged so as to produce... citește mai departe
The Business Plan of SC Gaby'S Pizza SRL
1. The Summary of the Business Plan SC Gaby’s pizza SRL is a production company that wants to fulfill the wishes of the customers, offering them quality products at a reasonable price. The company’s work will focus on the production of pizza and other pastry products. SC Gaby’s pizza SRL will set a price equal to... citește mai departe
Modals and Semi-modals
A. THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS I. MODALS There are nine central modals in English. (Other terms used for them are ‘modal verbs’ and ‘modal auxiliaries’ and ‘modal auxiliary verbs’.) They are used to add meaning to a main verb, for example to indicate how certain, possible, probable, necessary, obligatory something... citește mai departe
Epistemic Modality
Language is not merely used for conveying factual information. A speaker may, in addition, wish to indicate the degree of certainty with which she/he makes a statement, or to try to influence other people in various ways: to exercise authority or signal submission to somebody else's authority, to give permission or... citește mai departe
The Comedy Related to Feste - The Fool - în Twelfth Night
Plays are one of the most subtle forms of literature: while a novel reveals almost everything in its text and description, much of a play depends on the matter between the lines or on the behavior and interpretation of the actors who play the roles. And these influences are invisible, unless we examine the context... citește mai departe
Oracle and PHP
Introduction to PHP PHP has one of those recursive names, PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. It was originally designed around web programming, but has since evolved to be a full-fledged scripting language like Perl. Far and away the strength of PHP is in its community, and how it has evolved. Rather than being designed... citește mai departe